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Premiering three years ago, when the TV-renaissance bacchanal had reached fever pitch, "The Newsroom" was greeted with giddy anticipation — Aaron Sorkin on HBO!

It was followed by an often weirdly personal disappointment when the series failed to amaze. How could this happen? In the "Golden Age of Television"?

Sorkin, never one to shy away from controversy, engaged in the kind of public dialogue that a decade or so ago —- when most people thought television was written by, you know, the actors — would have been unheard of. The second season seemed to respond to many of the criticisms, albeit in a way that did not, for good or ill depending on your point...

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